DescriptionHuzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
2014-01-24 09:06:43 UTC
A Denial-of-Service flaw was found in the way the IRC protocol plugin of pidgin handled IRC arguments. A malicious server or man-in-the-middle could trigger a crash in libpurple by sending a message with fewer than expected arguments.
Acknowledgements:
Red Hat would like to thank the Pidgin project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Daniel Atallah as the original reporter of this issue.
Comment 1Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
2014-01-27 06:29:55 UTC